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Global Investor Programme factsheet (updated 2 August 2023)
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What the document holds
EDB GIP factsheet updated 2 August 2023 (20 pp.): same four profiles and thresholds as 2021 (founders' company must be non-publicly listed); Option A S$10m (paid-up capital counts), Option B S$25m in a GIP-select fund, Option C single family office with AUM S$200m and S$50m transferred by AIP and deployed in 4 categories within 12 months of Final Approval; assessment criteria; processing about 12 months; post-AIP documents per option; formalisation within 12 months; 5-year re-entry permit, renewal window opens 3 months before expiry; renewal conditions (Option A 30 employees, half citizens, 10 incremental; B maintain S$25m; C 5 incremental family office professionals incl. 3 citizens and maintain S$50m; residence more than half the time); fee S$10,000; supporting documents; industries. No statistics. Option amounts, AUM and fee were already recorded (from this and other sources); this pass adds the 2023 renewal conditions, deployment deadline, renewal window and processing time. Rules restated from other sources are now recorded from this document too (decision 8).
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- Business investmentmain applicantSGD 10,000,000Date not stated · Singapore EDB 2023Singapore · Global Investor Programme
- Investment fund unitsmain applicantSGD 25,000,000Date not stated · Singapore EDB 2023Singapore · Global Investor Programme
- Family office amount invested locallyamount transferred into Singapore and deployed in qualifying investmentsSGD 50,000,000Date not stated · Singapore EDB 2023Singapore · Global Investor Programme
- Application feeper applicationSGD 10,000Date not stated · Singapore EDB 2023Singapore · Global Investor Programme
- Years of business or investment experience requiredEstablished Business Owners: minimum entrepreneurial and business track record3 yearsDate not stated · Singapore EDB 2023Singapore · Global Investor Programme
- Time before expiry when re-entry permit renewal opensthe window to apply for re-entry permit renewal opens this long before the permit expires3 monthsDate not stated · Singapore EDB 2023Singapore · Global Investor Programme
- Years of business or investment experience requiredFamily Office Principals: minimum entrepreneurial, investment or management track record5 yearsDate not stated · Singapore EDB 2023Singapore · Global Investor Programme
- Re-entry permit validityfirst re-entry permit issued on formalisation of PR; renewed for 3 or 5 years if conditions are met5 yearsDate not stated · Singapore EDB 2023Singapore · Global Investor Programme
- Deadline to make the investmenttime to make the investment after Approval-in-Principle of PR (the AIP is valid for 6 months)6 monthsDate not stated · Singapore EDB 2023Singapore · Global Investor Programme
- Time limit to invest family office fundsOption C: time after Final Approval to deploy at least S$50 million in the qualifying investment categories12 monthsSince 15 Mar 2023 · Singapore EDB 2023Singapore · Global Investor Programme
- Time limit to formalise permanent residencetime to formalise PR status after the Final Approval letter12 monthsDate not stated · Singapore EDB 2023Singapore · Global Investor Programme
- Maximum age of a dependent childchildren included as dependants in the PR application must be below this age (unmarried, as at the date of application, in the 2014 and later factsheets)21 yearsDate not stated · Singapore EDB 2023Singapore · Global Investor Programme
- Family office professionals employed, for renewalOption C re-entry permit renewal: incremental family office professionals, at least 3 of them Singapore Citizens, plus maintaining S$50 million in the qualifying investments5 employeesSince 15 Mar 2023 · Singapore EDB 2023Singapore · Global Investor Programme
- Minimum shareholding in the businessOption A: applicant's minimum shareholding in the Option A company, and must be in its management team30%Date not stated · Singapore EDB 2023Singapore · Global Investor Programme
- Minimum shareholding in the companyapplicant's minimum shareholding in the qualifying company, if privately owned30%Date not stated · Singapore EDB 2023Singapore · Global Investor Programme
- Minimum shareholding in the companyNext Generation Business Owners: immediate family's minimum shareholding in the qualifying company (or largest shareholder)30%Date not stated · Singapore EDB 2023Singapore · Global Investor Programme
- Employees required for renewalOption A re-entry permit renewal: employees of the Option A company, at least half Singapore Citizens, of whom at least 10 incremental30 employeesSince 15 Mar 2023 · Singapore EDB 2023Singapore · Global Investor Programme
- Share of time lived in the country, for renewalre-entry permit renewal: residence in Singapore of the investor or GIP-PR dependants (more than half the time; alternative condition for a 3-year renewal, required with the business condition for a 5-year renewal)50 percent of the timeDate not stated · Singapore EDB 2023Singapore · Global Investor Programme
- Fund investment kept, for renewalOption B re-entry permit renewal: GIP-select fund investment to be maintainedSGD 25,000,000Since 15 Mar 2023 · Singapore EDB 2023Singapore · Global Investor Programme
- Family office assets under management kept, for renewalAUM to be maintained across the four investment categories through the 5-year PR period (Option C, re-entry permit renewal)SGD 50,000,000Date not stated · Singapore EDB 2023Singapore · Global Investor Programme
- Minimum company turnoverEstablished Business Owners: annual turnover of the company the applicant runs, in the year before applying and on average over the three years beforeSGD 200,000,000Date not stated · Singapore EDB 2023Singapore · Global Investor Programme
- Family office assets under managementsingle family office assets under management (may be partly offshore)SGD 200,000,000Date not stated · Singapore EDB 2023Singapore · Global Investor Programme
- Net worth requiredFamily Office Principals: net investible assets of the applicant (financial assets, excluding real estate); qualifies for Option C onlySGD 200,000,000Date not stated · Singapore EDB 2023Singapore · Global Investor Programme
- Minimum company turnoverNext Generation Business Owners: annual turnover of the family company, in the year before applying and on average over the three years beforeSGD 500,000,000Date not stated · Singapore EDB 2023Singapore · Global Investor Programme
- Minimum valuation of the founder's companyFounders of Fast Growth Companies: valuation of the company the applicant founded and is one of the largest individual shareholders ofSGD 500,000,000Date not stated · Singapore EDB 2023Singapore · Global Investor Programme
About the document
What it covers GIP terms after the 15 Mar 2023 changes, before the Feb 2025 Option C change; S$10,000 application fee.
Notes Retrieved from the Wayback Machine capture of 7 Apr 2024 (same URL as the current factsheet, now overwritten).
Source id sgp-edb-gip-factsheet-2023 · accessed 2 Oct 2026